IMRef_340: Name of Kyros
- Attestation
- ⲕⲩⲣⲟⲩ
- Translation
- Kyros / Kurou
- Description
- Persian male name deriving from the brother of John, physician and soldier, martyr of Egypt, or the Egyptian anchorite, brother of the emperor Theodosius (Apa Kyros)
- Text
- 1659
- Provenance
- Faras
- Date
- probably 866–902
- Language
- unidentified
- Linguistic context
- unidentified
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 1
- Latest edition
-
Griffith 1927, p. 90 (gr. 5), pls. 64.1, 73.5; I. Faras Copt., p. 96, with n. 44
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Abba Kyrou is perhaps identical with Bishop Kyros of Faras (cf. DBMNT 86, 97, and 1817).
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.77: Name: foreign (Persian), male, Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
-
For IMVar 1.77:
- gender: male
- religion: Christian - Person
- 600314: Kyros
- Role
- author/commemorated person
- Name
- 3785: Kyros
- Name variant
- 301362: ⲕⲩⲣⲟⲩ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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